Heathers [DVD]

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Just as Rodney Asher's 2012 documentary Room 237 mines Stanley Kubrick's The Shining for deeper meanings, there is no shortage of Heathers fan theories.

The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope: The Ultimate Guide to the Latest, Greatest, and Weirdest Genre Videos. You look at movies like The Matrix and Back to the Future, and the sequels almost hurt the original's reputation. Winona got the darkness and the humour of it, but Winona being Winona just gave a lilt to the character.The funeral scenes were filmed at Church of the Angels in Pasadena, California, a location used in other media including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Just Married. The narrative has been updated for millennials, using social media references and lingo that people who grew up with the original film didn't have. On November 18, 2008, Anchor Bay released a Blu-ray with all the special features from the 20th anniversary DVD and a soundtrack in Dolby TrueHD 5.

The producers wanted her to dye her hair blonde to match the other "Heathers", but Doherty refused, so they compromised on her having red hair.Ryder, who was 16 during the shoot, had to beg to be chosen ahead of Connelly and Family Ties' Justine Bateman. Its plot portrays four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

Its cast included Carrie Hope Fletcher as Veronica Sawyer, Jodie Steele as Heather Chandler, Jamie Muscato as J. When Veronica drunkenly vomits on Chandler, she vows to destroy Veronica's reputation as retaliation. The basic thesis – the unpopular people are popular now – is a little esoteric but by the fourth episode they’ve moved away from the movie altogether and it’s actually really good.Directed by Michael Lehmann, Heathers pushed the teen comedy into dark and nightmarish territory and is distinguished by the career defining central performances of its stars Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. year-old Shannen Doherty wanted the role of Veronica, but Ryder had been cast, so the producers asked her to audition for Heather Chandler. Elsewhere, rumours destroy reputations overnight, a plot device that works even better re-watched from the internet age.

D. break into Chandler's house, planning revenge by using a fake hangover cure to make Chandler vomit. Heathers is a brilliantly quotable cult film, but did you know it is also one of the most frequently cited films in the OED. The musical played at Off-Broadway's New World Stages with performances beginning March 15, 2014, and an opening night on March 31. I'm interested to see how the rest of the season develops as I've only watched a couple of eps so far. Some reviewers have discussed similarities between Heathers and Massacre at Central High, a low-budget 1976 film.Heathers replaces Massacre 's fascistic male clique with a femme one but otherwise clones the earlier flick pretty closely. chases Kurt back toward Veronica, who, realizing that the bullets are in fact lethal, fatally shoots him in a panic. This release did not utilize Arrow Films' 4K restoration and featured new and previous special features. As students and faculty rush to see what happened, Veronica walks back inside, disheveled from the explosion.